Video for Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention: Promises, Challenges, and Future Directions.

The authors reflect on the use of video recordings and Internet videos in adolescent pregnancy prevention interventions, and it mentions the cost effectiveness of video prevention programs, as well as information about a multi-site randomized controlled trials to evaluate the Seventeen Days interactive video intervention. Increased sexual abstinence and reduced condom failures are examined in relation to teenage pregnancy prevention programs. The limitations of technology are assessed.